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2012-2013 General Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Comparative Literature


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Program Overview

Comparative literature at LSU is an interdisciplinary program that encourages students to approach literary studies from multiple perspectives. A core curriculum grounded in the history of literary criticism and theory, and training in at least three languages and national literary traditions prepares students in the PhD program to undertake comparative, interdisciplinary research. With the guidance of faculty, students develop their own degree plans and research agendas meant to combine the study of literature, literary theory, language, philosophy, art, history, and other cultural phenomena including science and social science in exciting, fruitful, and innovative ways.

Administration

Adelaide Russo, Director
TELEPHONE 225-578-6670
FAX 225-578-6628
E-MAIL complit@lsu.edu
WEBSITE www.lsu.edu/complit/

Admission

Applicants for admission to the PhD program are required to submit GRE scores to The Graduate School before their applications can be considered. Applicants should submit three letters of recommendation and a writing sample.

Financial Assistance

Graduate assistantships and fellowships are available. Contact the program director for information. Most assistantships require teaching one course each semester.

Graduate Faculty

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Frank Anselmo (6A) • 19th and 20th Century French literature and history
Inessa Bazayev (6A) • Music Theory, Russian avant-garde
Jacob Berman (6A) • American literature, American orientalism, American Islam and Arab literature and history
William Boelhower (M) • Ethnic studies, Atlantic studies, critical theory, and early modern literatures
Kevin Bongiorni (3A) • 19th and 20th century French and Italian literatures, cinema, semiotics
Brett Boutwell (6A) • Avant-garde and Contemporary Music, John Cage
Elena Castro (7M) • 20th century Spanish Peninsular literature, Spanish avant-garde
Paolo Chirumbolo (6A) • Contemporary and Experimental Italian and Canadian Literature and Film
Alejandro Cortazar (7M) • Literature and culture of Mexico, nation building and cultural identity formation in 19th century
Spanish America, Hispanic women writers
Kevin L. Cope (M) • 18th century literature, intellectual history
William Lake Douglas (3A) • Landscape Architecture, Public and Private Spaces, Gardens
Femi Euba (M) •Theatre, African and African-American Studies
Christian Fernandez-Palacios (7M) • Colonial Latin American studies, Latin American narratives, cultural theory, postcolonial studies, transatlantic and comparative studies
Kristopher Fletcher (6A) • Augustan Poetry, Mythology & Mythography, Greek & Roman Epic, Hellenistic Poetry, Translation Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Historical Fiction
Carl Freedman (M) • Critical Theory; Film Studies
Jesse Gellrich (M) • Medieval literature, critical theory
Andreas Giger (7M) • Music, Italian and European Opera, Leonard Bernstein
Dorota Heneghan (6A) •Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature and Culture, Interdisciplinary
Approaches to Modern Spanish Culture, Women and Gender Studies, Transatlantic Studies, Art History
Katherine Henninger (7M) • Literature of the American South, Literature and Photography, Louisiana and Caribbean Studies
Jefferson Humphries (M) • East-west comparative studies, Buddhism and literature theory, French and American literature, Caribbean literature, Japan studies
Katharine Jensen (7M) • 17th and 18th century French literature, French women writers, feminist poetry
J. Gerald Kennedy (M) • American literature, contemporary American short fiction, literary modernism
Touria Khannous (6A) •Arabic literature and film, African literature, literatures of the Maghreb, post-colonial literature and theory, Women Studies.
Joseph G. Kronick (M) • American poetry, critical theory, philosophy and literature
Alexandre Leupin (M) • Medieval literature, literary criticism and theory, psychoanalysis, epistemology
Qiancheng Li (7M) • Premodern Chinese literature, comparative literature
John Lowe (M) • African American literature, Southern literature, ethnic literature
Wilfred Major (6A) • Classical Studies, theatre, philosophy, oratory
Laura Martins (7M) • Latin American literature, film, postcolonial theory
Patrick McGee (M) • Film studies, cultural studies, Joyce and Irish studies, African American literature
Anna Nardo (M) •Seventeenth-century English literature, John Milton, George Eliot, Shakespeare and film
Pius Nkashama Ngandu (M) • Semantics of metaphor, Francophone literature, theories of narrative, semiotics, African literature
Lisi Oliver (M) • Medieval law, historical linguistics
Brenda-Marie Osbey (6A) • Poetry of the African Diaspora
Jeffrey Perry (7M) •Music Theory, Contemporary Music and Literature
Rosemary Peters (6A) • 19th century French literature, comparative literature
John Pizer (M) • 18th to 20th century German literature and critical thought
John Protevi (M) • Contemporary French philosophy, Western philosophy, philosophy of mind
Francois Raffoul (M) • Continental philosophy, phenomenology, Heidegger, Levinas
Pallavi Rastogi (7M) • Colonial and postcolonial literature, South Asian literature, multicultural British literature
Adelaide Russo (M) • European and the American Poetry from 1850 to the present, interdisciplinary studies, critical theory, literature and the visual arts, Bi-lingual contexts (Belgium, Canada, Mauritius)
Gregory B. Stone (M) • Medieval and Renaissance literature, literary theory and criticism, medieval Islam
Mark Wagner (6A) •Middle Eastern Studies, Islam, Judaism, History and Religion
Jack Yeager (M) • Francophone Vietnamese literature, literature of Quebec, gender studies and queer theory
Michelle Zerba (7M) • Classical languages and literature, Renaissance literature, comparative literature, literary theory, rhetoric, political and ethical philosophy
Gang Zhou (6A) • Modern Chinese literature and culture, comparative literature

Degree Programs

 LSU offers the PhD in comparative literature. The PhD program requires at least 48 hours beyond the bachelor’s degree, a general examination, a dissertation, and a final examination in defense of the dissertation.

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